I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
Paul D. Boyer

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
Julia Roberts

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.
Dirk Bogarde

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
John Malkovich

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
Mike Krzyzewski

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.
Janet Jackson

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.
Shirley Manson

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
Tatum O'Neal

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.
Bernie Ebbers

I lost my temper on stage.
Michael Richards

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.
Lisa Marie Presley

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.
John Malkovich

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.
Tim Robbins

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Hannah More

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.
Richard H. Davis

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Samuel Butler

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
Edmund Burke

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
Jackie Robinson

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
Charles Dickens

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
Sean O'Casey